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Work from home is the best thing we have gotten in the US in my lifetime. The fact that they're trying to take it away based on vibes is... a lot
A recruiter today told me that almost all of her clients are onsite, some of them six days a week. And the employees like it, she said, because they're mostly young and miss socializing after COVID.
I think I responded with something like "capitalist hell scape" and the call ended shortly after.
I hate this country
I'm in my 40s and I do not like wfh. I don't have the discipline, there's too many distractions.
That's likely true for some people, or falsely believed to be true, but that doesn't justify the immense costs of going into an office for most people. Two hours a day, unpaid, just gone. Environmental damage from all the transit. Wasted energy from the bullshit most offices do- TVs on no one watches, AC keeping empty rooms at 62f, etc. Increased exposure for diseases. All the lost productivity from people who don't work better in an office.
Maybe you could get a local coworking space? My old boss did that because he found it hard to focus in his home with the dog and kid.
I sometimes think that, but then I go in to the office and discover I'm just as distractable there, but the things I distract myself with there are a lot more miserable and unproductive, like "Hacker" "News", as compared to doing dishes.
Nah, I'm not doing anything worthwhile. I just wind up playing with my phone or something. Being in a more public space helps keep me at least a bit more accountable.
no, see... like... 
getting to "fuck off" more and being less "accountable" is only of benefit to you.
unless you're doing revolutionary work or feeding/housing the hungry/unhoused, why would you want to work 8 straight? why would you want to be away from home? why in the heck would you want be more productive?
your difficulty focusing when you're at home is your body telling you to purge your 
Because I'm working on my honours and I want to actually pass;) no, I get where you're coming from, but post-revolution productivity is good praxis, and pre-revolution staying employed is good for my ability to stay housed.
You're the exception. Nothing stopping you from going to the office 5 days a week, have fun
Yeah I get that. Sometimes I do wonder if I'd be equally distracted in an office, but just in a different way.
That being said I hate that companies with offices dont just let that be a choice??? like I bet office work would be more distracting and stuff if it was stuffed full of people who may not want to be there versus quiet with the people who do wanna be there
Honestly? I worked in an office setting (as a drafter) for like... Eleven, twelve years? Before covid hit, anyway. My experience with "work" from home has actually been study, I left engineering/design to do my BSc, and I really struggle to get any serious work done (on my honours thesis, now) at home. Also, it's not just that I find wfh distracting, I also hate having my work - including this work, on something I find genuinely fascinating - intrude into my home. I think it just further upsets work/life balance.
Those kids only like the slop theyre handed because they never got anything better. Poor bastards.
In Australia the public service union managed to get the default contract to presume WFH. Employers have to make the case that it is unsuitable for the role if they don't want it.
Based on that other unions are now trying to get the same. The federal government is in favour of WFH because a) it saves them a staggering amount of money in inflated commercial rents and b) massively opens up the talent pool outside of our tiny capital city.
It's so fucking awesome. My wife works for the APS and she has no surveillance software, just work she has to get done and deadlines. The pay is shit compared to when she was in private industry but we actually see each other now and the flexibility of work means she's not crying at her desk.
<3 me unions.
based and telling rich people to fuck themselves pilled
Where I'm working right now being in the office is an active hindrance — unreliable computers, unreliable internet, I have a load of resources at home that they don't, the office is often too noisy to concentrate. But you better believe they won't let us work from home.
yeah im glad the programmers all hate even the """voluntary""" recurring work events coz the wifi in the office has always sucked ass (which doesnt help your mood when you've travelled 150 miles on a stuffy train to get there)
These fucking losers really can't handle a workplace without being able to strut around the office acting important...
The workers doing the job without the boss breathing down their necks reminds the boss just how useless they actually are and how little the workers actually need them. It reminds them that the working class will rise up against them sooner or later.
It is exactly that. I wont name names but Im SURE he knew Elon in person at some point. He's a hardass brought in to "make us profitable" which seems to include being such an insufferable prick that ive spent HoURS today writing a formal request to change my contract (one of the few good things about UK equality law).
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